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December 6, 2004

Berkman on Copyright in EU

I'm late to the game on this, but the Berkman Center for Internet & Society has published yet another terrific study, this time a paper on how the EU Copyright Directive (EUCD) is applied all across the European Union. It focuses on the laws addressing technological protection measures (TPMs) -- WIPO-speak for DRM.

Well, not exactly all around, most of Central and Northern Europe are missing and the chosen laws aren't the most interesting ones (especially Greece is just a quick, direct translation of the directive). FIPR's copyright guide is a bit better in this sense: http://www.fipr.org/copyright/guide/